{"id":24017,"date":"2016-03-27T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/why-we-need-a-transhumanism-movement"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:36","slug":"why-we-need-a-transhumanism-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/why-we-need-a-transhumanism-movement","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need a Transhumanism Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTgJddfPsA4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-we-need-a-transhumanism-movement.jpg\" data-beacon=\"{\u201cp\u201d:{\u201cmnid\u201d:\u201d entry_text\u201d,\u201d lnid\u201d:\u201d citation\u201d,\u201d mpid\u201d:0}}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"2016-03-25-1458872131-9088312-zoltatpeopleunlimited.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-we-need-a-transhumanism-movement.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A crowd gathers to hear about transhumanism and life extension technologies \u2014 Photo by Roen Horn <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently I was asked to be a part of a debate for British think-tank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demos.co.uk\/about\/\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{\u201cp\u201d:{\u201cmnid\u201d:\u201d entry_text\u201d,\u201d lnid\u201d:\u201d citation\u201d,\u201d mpid\u201d:1}}\">Demos<\/a> and their quarterly magazine. In the debate, The University of Sheffield Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardALJones\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{\u201cp\u201d:{\u201cmnid\u201d:\u201d entry_text\u201d,\u201d lnid\u201d:\u201d citation\u201d,\u201d mpid\u201d:2}}\">Richard Jones<\/a> and I faced off over the merits and faults of transhumanism. You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterly.demos.co.uk\/article\/issue-8\/transhumanism-zoltan-vs-professor-richard\/\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{\u201cp\u201d:{\u201cmnid\u201d:\u201d entry_text\u201d,\u201d lnid\u201d:\u201d citation\u201d,\u201d mpid\u201d:3}}\">entire debate here<\/a>, but I wanted to focus on one part of it, where Jones questions why there\u2019s a need for a transhumanism movement at all.<\/p>\n<p>I used to get asked the question Jones raised all the time. Luckily, the amount of people that ask it has declined, partially because transhumanism has grown so much in popularity. Many people nowadays simply accept transhumanism as part of tech and science culture.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I believe it\u2019s worth sharing my thoughts on why a \u201ctranshumanism movement\u201d is needed. Here was my answer in the debate:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/why-we-need-a-transhumani_b_9544368.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/why-we-need-a-tr...44368.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crowd gathers to hear about transhumanism and life extension technologies \u2014 Photo by Roen Horn Recently I was asked to be a part of a debate for British think-tank Demos and their quarterly magazine. In the debate, The University of Sheffield Professor Richard Jones and I faced off over the merits and faults of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67900,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017\/revisions\/67900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}